Default Browser in Mac OS X

My current browser is Firefox. I am not a big fan of Safari. I am using Prism until Google Chrome is available for Mac OS X. Whenever I click a link in Gmail (which is a Prism app) it would open up in Safari. Annoying.

So, I opened up Options in Firefox and found the "Check Now" button to set Firefox to be the default browser. Nothing changed. So I went to Options in Safari, to see if I could make it the default browser, thinking I would go back to Firefox and hopefully fix the mess. I was surprised to find a setting that allowed you to choose your default web browser. I selected Firefox. And now links in my Gmail Prism app open up in Firefox.

So, if you are wondering how to make Firefox your default web browser on Mac OS X, just go into Safari's options (on the General tab) and set it. Easy. When you know where to look.

I am sixty4bit

When I was in the US Navy I was introduced to chatting on IRC. This was way back in 1995. I had been on AOL a time or two, but I didn't have a nickname that I liked. I looked around the server room and saw a DEC Alpha. It had a 64-bit processor. I thought I would get fancy and use sixty4bit as my nickname. It stuck. So, I am sixty4bit on most networks now, including Facebook.